Successive High Priests

Famous quotes containing the words successive, high and/or priests:

    He represents the privilege of the intellect, the power, namely, of carrying up every fact to successive platforms, and so disclosing, in every fact, a germ of explanation.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
    William Golding (b. 1911)

    Drive the women from the bed just as you drove them from the choir; a eunuch sings in Rome, and the priests masturbate.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)